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I own a 97 model. It is the ONE guitar for me. It comes with p100 pickups which are stacked humbuckers in a p90 case. These pickups are of course super quiet, but they don't sound anything at all like old school p90s. The p100 is kind of bell like in its volume and tone response. The sound tapers off really quick. I think the p100 might be one of the best funky clean pickups ever made - but when you want to get singing leads it's a useless pickup. The solution for m0st of us p100 era owners is to swap out the bridge for a p90 to get somewhere to go when it's lead time. I would never swap out the p100 neck pickup - it's awesome. With the two versions of pickups the guitar still sounds complete and it has a great range. I would probably die if I lost mine.

I bought this due to the low price point. I use it for fooling around and nothing more and it does that wonderfully. The interface is pretty straight forward for basic use. Click to start recording, click again to go into overdubs, click again to stop. Double click to undo. It holds hours of samples inside of 99 save banks. After a while you end up with a large library of your own chops to jam with. It has independent volume for input and sample playback as well as a primitive drum machine that tries to match your tempo. I don't use the drum parts because they sound like lo-bit trash (which is odd since the machine is a sampler and has huge memory - why you no put decent drums?). I can't fault the sound quality. No issues with playback and pass through. All in all this is a fun tool for laying down a pattern and working on your leads without a huge cost. This review was for the v1. There is a v2 out now, but I'm not aware of the improvements.

I've owned this since it came out years ago. I just own that first model and not the recent revisions. I never loved this pedal. I tried it again because everyone says it's great due to someone big using it. It's still not great. The fuzz option (the marketing that made me buy it as a kid) is 100% useless noise and I can't imagine anyone ever turning that on. It's hard to say what my issue is other than I don't like the results of using it. It sounds robotic, processed and not organic to my ears. Your own results may vary.

This fuzz is not a hacksaw of doom or scooped thunder mush of death. It's pretty mild compared to most modern fuzz pedals, though it sounds awesome. This thing is almost like an instrument itself if you know how to deal with it. It's got a full range of distortion and cleans up with your guitar volume like nothing you've ever heard - except from Hendrix. As you turn down the volume on your guitar it does not reduce the output very much, but instead reduces the fuzz leaving your guitar loud, clean and sparkling/spanky in a really nice way. You can go down to clean funk with your volume knob or up to classic OD all the way to all along the watch tower leads. You could do a whole classic rock show with this alone and never have to step on it. It worked for Hendrix. It's important to put this before any buffer and before anything that is going to compress or amplify the sound if you really want to use it fully. Put it first for best results. Use the input knob to get it to work full range. If your guitar is naturally loud then turn down input on the pedal until your volume knob controls the drive/fuzz. Used with a Vox Ac15 being assaulted by p90 Les Paul.

Bought this new at full retail price online and I love it. It's the best playing guitar I've ever held or owned in 35 or so years of playing. The satin nitro finish is the best finish Gibson offer as far as feel of neck. The fret job is 100% perfect. You can't get a better fret lay. Robots are good! This guitar is the T model. No stupid robot tuners or other stuff no one wants. Now the problems : 2 of the gibson deluxe tuners are dead on arrival. They turn and sort of work, but it feels like the screw that mounts the shaft to the gear is lose. The shaft slants from left to right as you turn the peg. Not wobble, but actually lean left for half the rotation, then lean right. They bind and catch as you tune. They sometimes need 1/4 turn to catch up with the gears. They are complete crap and it makes me sad that I have to repair a brand new guitar. The pickups are mini buckers in the firebird style. They have a bar magnet in the center of each coil and no string height screws. For some insane reason gibson decided the bridge pickup should be 25k output... yeah, that's right. It sounds OK if all you want is hot hot hot sound from your guitar. I might get them rewound down to about 10k, replace the ceramic with alnico and make them usable, or just swap them for p90s. Again... sad face. But wait! There's more! The fret marker blocks are not centered. They are over 1/8 inch too high on the board and 1/16 inch too close to the nut. WTF gibson.. you suck. But wait! We'll also include an off center holly/pineapple on your SG! That's right... the freaking holly is 1/8 inch off center on the head stock.. so very sad. After 100 years of making a guitar they can't even come up with a jig to center basic things like the FREAKING LOGO. Now how much would you pay? But wait! There's even more! The input jack pushes against the back service plate when you have a standard cord plugged into the guitar. This causes the guitar to snap and crack and the plug gets moved around as your body contacts the plate. Isn't that a nice design feature? A 60 year old design and they can't even sort out the ()#$*)(@* input jack. I ripped out the PCB board that had the 4 pots and input and put in dedicated hardware.. you suck gibson. And finally... one of the 4 screws that hold the service plate is half the length of the other 3 and does not catch threads... serious... a 1200$ guitar. Ah, what can I say. This is my third gibson. I made the mistake of buying this one blind. I will continue to buy gibson, but never again blind and I will no longer defend their reputation. Gibson deserve all the mud that people can sling.